Don't Make Me Dance

Don't Make Me Dance
by John Forster & Tom Chapin
© 2005 Limousine Music Co. & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)

Don’t make me dance. Don’t make me dance.
Please, don’t make me dance.

We like your dance. Don’t make me dance.
We like your dance. Don’t make me dance.
Please! Please!
We like your dance. Nope. Ain’t gonna happen.

You got to dance. Let go of my hand.
You got to dance. Come on, stop pushing me.
Please! I’m warning you…
You got to dance. Oh no! Oh no! Here I go…

Well I’m a-pumpin’ and a-bumpin’
And I got the joint a-jumpin’
In a crazy terpsichorean trance.
I’m a-gyratin’, oscillatin’, undulatin’.
Hey, I told you not to make me dance.

I’m a-wigglin’ and a-gigglin’
And all of me is jigglin’
And everyone is lookin’ askance.
I’m a-makin’ such a ruckus,
Like a hurricane has struck us.
I told you not to make me dance.
We like your dance. You like my dance?
We like your dance. You’re kidding!
Please - do it again! I don’t think so…
Don’t make me dance. We like your dance. Don’t make me dance.
We like your dance. No, no.
Please! Then you gotta do it with me!

Now we’re pumpin’ and a-bumpin’
And we got the joint a-jumpin’
In a crazy terpsichorean trance.
We’re a-gyratin’, oscillatin’, undulatin’.
Hey, you told us not to make you dance.
We’re a-wigglin’ an’ a-gigglin’ and all of us is jigglin’
And everyone is lookin’ askance.
We’re a-makin’ such a ruckus,
Like a hurricane has struck us.
I told you not to make me dance.

Don’t make me dance. You’ve got to dance.
Don’t make me dance. You’ve got to dance.
Please! Please!
Don’t make me dance.
Don’t make me dance.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Some Assembly Required CD.

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